Re: [dev] [sic] srw - simple read wrapper

On 24 Jun 2010, at 20:04, pancake wrote:

> I was quite happy when i read about linenoise..but after reading the
> code..
>
> how can somebody say that such code can replace readline? It just
> read lines
> and supports history. nothing more, there's no autocompletion and
> does not works
> on windows.

It also supports line editing, which is immensely valuable. In fact I
only looked at linenoise because I needed line editing. It's misses a
lot of keybindings I'm used to, but then so do many console apps.

>
> Some years ago I wrote 'dietline' which works on windows, osx,
> linux, bsd.. using
> scape codes, supports autocompletion, history and it's about 700LOC
> It really
> needs some work to have a standarized way to autocomplete (i didnt
> really liked
> the readline way).
>
> dietline is now in r2 renamed as r_line. If somebody feels bored and
> wants to
> finish the autocompletion callback, just ping me.
>
> If i would just wanted to have history i could probably do it in
> 50LOC.
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:55:27 -0700
> Evan Gates <evan.gates_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
>> <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 24 Jun 2010, at 07:10, anonymous wrote:
>>>
>>>> Works nice, but with 9term it is possible to move cursor and edit
>>>> line. If you don't want to use readline (because of license),
>>>> you can
>>>> use libedit from BSD.
>>>
>>> Or linenoise[1], which sucks vastly less than either. :)
>>>
>>> [1] http://github.com/antirez/linenoise
>>>
>>> It's a single C file of 432 lines as opposed to libedit's 20k and
>>> readline's
>>> 30k, and works with perhaps > 99% of the terminals still in use,
>>> as nearly
>>> all terminals respect vt100 escape codes. I was introduced to it
>>> the other
>>> day when looking for something to make rc usable on a machine
>>> where 9term
>>> just isn't working out, one way or another.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Quick clarification, srw does not use readline, it uses the ansi
>> escape codes and is as of this writing 143 sloc according to
>> sloccount.
>>
>> linenoise seems interesting, I'll have to check it out.
>>
>> -emg
>>
>
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